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(ModeL) E. B. STIMPSON.

FASTENING FOR LEGGINS AND OVBRGAITERS.

2701147- Patented Jan. 2, 1883.

N. PETERi PhalwLilhographur, W-uhingtou, 0.1:

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN B. STIMPSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FASTENING FOR LEGGINS AND OVEliGAITERS'.

SPECTFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 270,147, dated January 2," 1883.

Application filed July 5, 1882. (ModeL) I To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that l, EDWIN B.-STIMPSON, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fastenings'forLeggins,Overgaiters,&c., of which the following is a specification.

My invention relatesto that class of fastenings which comprise two thin flexible strips of steel or other metal secured in pockets in the overlapping edges of a leggin or overgaiter, and which are provided with devices that may be interlocked to secure the leggiuor overgaiter in place. Such fastenings are fastened and unt'astened by bowin'gor springing outward one strip to draw its ends together or shorten it; and my present invention consists in the combination, with the leggin or overgaiter provided with pockets and strips contained entirely within the pockets, of novel devices secured to the strips, as hereinafter described, and which are adapted to belengaged with and disengaged fromeach 0t ier.

1n the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 representsa face view of the two parts of the fastening; Fig. 2 represents an edge view of the fastening, showing in dotted lines the position'which the strip having thestudsis made to assume in operating the fastening. Fig. 3 represents a side view of a leggin having the fastening applied, the edges of the leggin hea ing slightly separated; and Figs. 4, 5, and 6 represent slotted plates of modified form which may be employed.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A B designate two flat and thin strips of 'metalsuch, for instance, as spring-steelwhich are of about equal length. i

To the ends of the strip A are attached plates 0, each provided with a U-shaped slot,

o, and with overhanging lips or flanges b,

which are raised from the face of the strip, so as to leave a space between the said lips or flanges and the strip-about equal in width to the thickness of the plates. The strip A is adapted to be inserted in a pocket, D, in the edge of the leggin D, and the two platesO are to be placed outside the pocket, as shown clearly in Fig. 3. The strip may then be se cured to the leggin and the plates 0 to the strip by inserting the rivets 0 directly through the plates, the material of the leggin, and the strip.

vided with prongs d, (shown in Fig. 4,) which are adapted to be bent up at an angle to the plate and inserted through holes or notches in the strip, and also through the material of strip B and riveted. The studs 0 arebuttona,

headed, or are provided with flanges. The necks of the studs 6 are adapted to enter the slots a freely, the head of the stud passing 55 In lieu of rivets c, the plates 0 might be prounder the lips or flanges b on the slotted plate a O, and the stud cannot be withdrawn from the slotted plate until it is first moved longitudinally beyond the lips or flanges.

The manner-of operating this fasteninfgis clearly shown in Fig. 2. One of the studs e the lower one, for instance-is slipped into engagement with the lowerslotted plate,C, as

shown in Fig.2, and the strip B is then howed outward, so as to reduce the length sufticien tly to allow the stud at the upper endof the strip B to enter the slotted plate at the upper end of the strip'A. The strip B is then released, and theupper stud moves up under the lips or flanges b, and the leggin is fastened. To

unfasten the leggin the strip Bis bowed or sprung out sufficiently to carry the upper stud e beyond the lips or flanges ofthe upper plate .0, and the lower stud may then be readily withdrawn from the lower plate 0.

Instead of employing a plate 0 of the form before described, I may use a plate of the form shownin Fig. 6. In this plate the slot at extends from a hole,f, large enough to permit the passage of the head of the stud, which 5 then moves longitudinally under the lips or flanges b.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The combination, with a leggin or over- ICQ gaiter provided with the pockets D D of the I et D with heads or flanges, substantially as stripsAB,c0ntained entirely within said pnickand for the purpose specified.

ets, the slotted plates 0, provided with the ips r 0r flanges b on the outside of the pocket D. p STIMPSOA' rivets or fastening devices for securing said Witnesses:

plates to the strip A, and the studs 0, secured FREDK. HAYNES,

in the strip B, and provided outside the pock- GEORGE H. BoT'ls. 

